Our first DMCA notice, shutting down /s/cricket

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[–]Drewski 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Would you fight a bogus DMCA claim if it was being used as a tool for censorship / silencing speech?

https://blog.jipel.law.nyu.edu/2019/03/copyright-strikes-as-a-tool-for-censorship-bullying-extortion/

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190514/15424342212/copyright-as-censorship-american-law-institute-uses-copyright-to-stop-discussion-controversial-publication-prior-to-vote.shtml

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181218/11521641259/game-developer-admits-it-filed-bogus-copyright-claims-says-it-had-no-other-way-to-silence-critic.shtml

https://juliareda.eu/2018/08/censorship-machines-gonna-censor/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/23/copyright-law-internet-mumsnet

[–]magnora7[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes we have gotten fake DMCA takedown requests in the past actually. But this one was sent directly from our server company so we knew it was real.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

lol, doesnt rly mean its real, a company will do nothing to defend its consumers anymore, shame on the mess

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Our main one was from the ICC International Cricket Council themselves. I think that one pushed our web host into enforcement action.